BAIT-UL-MOQADDAS An Israeli extremist killed a 51-year-old Palestinian man in Bait-ul-Moqaddas early Wednesday in the sixth knife attack on an Arab in one of the city's ultra-Orthodox Jewish quarters in four months. Palestinian officials denounced the series of stabbings as the work of a Jewish terrorist network and charged that Israeli police were not taking sufficient action to halt the attacks.

Khairi Musa Alqam, a laborer from East Bait-ul-Moqaddas, was repeatedly stabbed in the back as he walked through the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter on his way to work in the Jewish western sector of the city, a police spokesman said. His attacker fled but police said they suspected it was the same person who has stabbed five Palestinian men in Mea Shearim. None of the other victims died from his wounds.

Police arrested a Jewish suspect but later said it appeared he had nothing to do with the stabbing and would probably be freed after some forensic tests are carried out. (AFP)